Just wanted to hip you to the fact that Judy Garland's first official "live" album, Garland At The Grove, has just been released on CD via the DRG label. This is not one of my favorite Judy Garland albums so I haven't exactly rushed out to buy it yet. Judy is not in the best of vocal shape on this recording as it was recorded on the last night of the engagement and the strain of several weeks of performing night after night shows in her voice.
That being said there is one gem that I remember from the original album. Judy does a bang up, no holds barred version of Harold Arlen's When The Sun Comes Out. Her performance is so powerful that she inspires the Freddy Martin Orchestra to give that little something extra that raises them from their normal "B" band status to the A category.
As I said, I don't have the CD yet, but I have heard from members of the Yahoo version of The Judy Garland Experience that DRG obviously cut costs in putting this CD together. There are no extra pictures, it isn't quite as complete as it purports to be, and oddest of all, it appears that nobody bothered to proof the liner notes, as it contains some embarrasing (for the author and DRG) errors.
But if you are a die hard Garland fan who collects everything by her (like me) you will probably be glad that this recording finally made it to CD.
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